'Nashville Wives': Beliefs and Morality Helped Us to Bond

They're not your typical reality TV housewives.

Former Hooters girl Cassie Chapman said her life has changed tremendously since she married Christian music singer and songwriter Gary Chapman.

The couple recently adopted a baby and religion has become a central part of her day-to-day life.

“I was a Hooters girl when Gary met me. Obviously, I had some cleavage showing,” she told Fox News. “But when you get older or married—we have a baby now—it’s time to be a little more conservative and for his line of work I can’t be like that anymore. I respect my husband.”

That’s something Chapman and fellow “Private Lives of Nashville Wives” star Erika Page White have in common. The two said that their morals are what brought them together on the new TNT reality show.

“We’ve very similar with a lot of the stuff that we like, morally, our beliefs,” White explained. “We get each other. I feel like I never have to explain myself to Cassie whereas some of the other girls may not understand me as well.”

For the two women, who are about to be thrust into the spotlight when their reality show premieres, religion often takes center stage.

“God is center of our marriage for sure,” Cassie said of her relationship.

White added that her future in the limelight is in God’s hands.

“I always believes if God wants me to do more he’ll open doors, and if not he’ll close them.”

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Gary Chapman Returns with New Album

Award-winning singer-songwriter Gary Chapman returns on November 5th with The Truth  - his first studio album since 2002.

The Truth features sixteen new studio recordings, with special vocal appearances from some of Chapman's friends and family including Allison Krauss, John Rich, Tanya Tucker and Rebecca Lynn Howard, On a more personal level, Chapman's daughter Sarah sings on "Put it in His Hands," and his wife Cassie duets on the Christmas-themed, "All About a Baby."

For well over three decades, Chapman has racked up an impressive list of Dove Awards, Grammy nominations and writing credits for legendary artists such as Kenny Rogers, Alabama and Wynonna. Chapman is also widely remembered as the host of TNN's popular "Prime Time Country" television series and the "Sam's Place" concert series and radio program.

While it's been a decade since Chapman's last studio album, he has hardly sat idle. Chapman wrote, produced and directed the documentary "The 8th of November" for country duo Big & Rich, successfully helmed the content assets of professional football's "School of the Legends," and launched the popular "A Hymn A Week" online song and stories series, which was inspired by singing many of gospel music's timeless standards at his ailing father's bedside during his final days.

"Singing those hymns I grew up with helped me remember what music is for," recalls Chapman. "This project has nothing to do with money, but everything to do with genuinely touching someone's heart and offering healing. I have no delusions of grandeur at this point in my life and I am pleasantly embracing a place where it really doesn't matter a whole lot to me what anybody thinks, and I say that with zero arrogance or perceived distance."

"My family is my life, they're everything to me really, and my local church is also a primary focus where I serve as an elder," says Chapman. "I'm excited for people to hear what I have to say about it all and I'm also very anxious to get back on the road, not only to play, but also to connect with everyone again after all this time. I just want to keep singing. It's one of the things I was born to do."